If where you're going isn't home
Subtitle: Journey
By: Max Zimmer
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9780985448127
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Racism; Fiction; Mormon teenagers; Mormons; Controversial literature; Young adult fiction; Racisme; Romans, nouvelles; Ouvrages de controverse; Roman pour jeunes adultes
Other titles: If where you are going is not home; Journey
Description: "The story of a boy growing up Mormon in America with a dream to play jazz trumpet. ... It begins in 1956. Young Shake Tauffler hears a line of music on the radio of a cattle truck that changes his life forever. The music is jazz. The instrument is a trumpet. His family is moving one last time - from a southern Utah ranch to a town outside Salt Lake - on his father's quest to bring his family from Switzerland to the heartland of the Mormon church. In two months, when Shake turns twelve, he'll join his buddies on a shared journey through the ranks of his father's take-no-prisoners religion. At the same time, armed with a used trumpet and his bike, he'll start another journey, on his own, to a place whose high priests aren't his father's friends but the Negro greats of jazz, men he's been taught to believe are cursed but from whose music he learns everything he dreams of being."--Back cover.